Were given freedom to the Jews by Cyro, king of the Medes, Persians and Chaldeus, which overwhelmed these last two people, and won several battles took Babylonia. Permit Cyro making this city the Jews to return to his homeland, which effectuou under the command of the chief pontiff and Joshua Zobadel. Evil came to Jerusalem, his first care was to re-building of the temple, which they could not immediately lead to {18} EFFECT prevent lh’o by the Samaritans, and finally getting it concluil Zerubbabel, through the help of Darius I . lasted for a little independence of the Hebrews. The reforms of Ezra, in quaes is understood the prohibição marriages with women from other nations, and the dissolution of families hitherto constituted against this precept, a scisma originated in that part of the people gathered to Samaritans, becoming the nation infraquecida enormously. Taking advantage of this state, the Persians conquered Judea, whose history since the conquest of Alexander to be confused with the other provinces of the humble, subject to the domain aquellas d’emperor. Continued rivalry between the Jews and the Samaritans, not the first to quaes Permit Intrada in the Temple of Jerusalem. The Jews did not constitute a people as well, but a simple communicates a religious or priestly caste, isolated from other populations in the middle of the great Persian Empire.